Tips : How to Get a Better Sleep

[bobby231]

Getting a good night's sleep is paramount to your well being. It is only when we sleep that our minds and bodies are afforded a chance to rest; only at rest do our minds and bodies have the chance to heal. Follow these four tips to get the best sleep possible.

1) Be careful about what you eat. What you put inside your body has everything to do with how your body behaves. You cannot load it with fatty greasy meals that take hours to fully digest, then expect your body to be in the mode to wind down. Make dinner a lighter meal than lunch and you'll find falling to sleep an easier affair.

2) Get good exercise. It's important for your body to feel appropriately tired at the end of the day. If you don't exert yourself, your body won't feel the urgency to shut down. This doesn't mean that you should exhaust yourself by any means, but you should certainly make an effort to get a bit of physical activity into each day.

3) Avoid excess stimulation. If you fill your eyes and mind with flashing images immediately before you try to fall asleep, your brain will still be trying to calibrate from the over stimulation. Spend the hour before bedtime engaged in a calming activity. Reading a book is always a good decision.

4) Lay your head down with an uncluttered mind. If you're worried about paying the mortgage before you go to bed, you're likely getting a one-way ticket to tossing and turning. Think relaxing thoughts in the time before bedtime and your pillow will be far more likely to reward you.

[Jack Burton]

[citation please]

[CapnLoki]

[citation please]

Citation? We don't need no stinkin citation!

He is his own citation. If you buy a mattress through his link he will sleep better tonight!

[49er]

[citation please]

Citation? We don't need no stinkin citation!

He is his own citation. If you buy a mattress through his link he will sleep better tonight!

Thanks CL, I needed a good laugh.

[robysue]

Adding a suggestion about bobby231's repeated posts about "what to do to get a good night's sleep": Just ignore them and do NOT respond to them.

They are essentially standard advice from the CBT-I world (for the most part) bundled with his weblink to the place where he sells mattresses. If he were to write directly about his mattresses, I'd be inclined to delete them as "spam". But since he's not actively advertising the mattress site in the posts, I don't delete them as "spam". That said, what he has to say doesn't really contribute much to the conversation ---since he's not trying to give specific advice to a specific person with some specific insomnia type problems.

If people would just ignore the posts, they'd quickly slide off the first page. However, as soon as someone chimes in with a (valid) "he's trying to sell mattresses" comment, we're putting his thread right back on top. And yes, I'm guilty of doing that right now. But I'm doing it only because I want people to understand why I intend to ignore all his posts from this point going forward.

[Goofproof]

It's dirty work but you know it, if we don't someone else will, at least the world will know his useless plan for conquest of the world mattress market.